Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The launch of SDSN Portugal is a milestone for accelerating innovative dialogue models that create spaces for reflection and sharing, involving academia, government, business and civil society, with the aim of developing actions to implement the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 5, 2016

The Low-Emissions Solutions Conference is part of the overall global agenda to bring together the stakeholders that can design and implement Nationally Determined Contributions and Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDSs) under the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The vital role that sustainable battery value chains play in meeting the Paris Agreement targets linked to the electrification of transport and power sectors was highlighted during multiple high-level conversations at COP27. The appointment is effective from April 2023 and the term will run until December 2024.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A recent study found that current rates of decoupling in high-income are falling far short of what is needed to limit global heating to well below 2°C as set out by the Paris Agreement. The agrowth position covers more mixed, middle-ground views on the decoupling debate.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 20, 2022

The Tang Prize is an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity. The SDSN has produced many highly influential reports, conducted academic studies, offered online courses, and held hundreds of SDG-related meetings around the world each year. Sachs has played a unique role in both.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They also addressed how lessons from the pandemic can be translated to the climate crisis to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by using an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2021

Take the example of the Climate Just tool, which combines open data from government and academic sources to visually display how heatwaves, flooding and other extreme climate events will affect disadvantaged and impoverished communities.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2023

The Church of England Pensions Board and Dutch asset owner PGGM had already declared their support for a Follow This resolution calling for the oil and gas major to align its Scope 3 emissions reduction target with the Paris Agreement.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The 22nd United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) successfully brought together climate experts, NGOs, and high-level government delegates to operationalize the Paris Agreement, which entered into force on November 4, 2016.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In particular, Sofidel's commitment is aimed at helping students, teachers, school administrators and academics to create more innovative, open and skills-based training, capable of constituting a real development factor for the entire district. Life on Earth. "To

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

A common message from Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of SDSN, is the critical need to articulate a clear long-term vision and not an incremental approach in order to avoid stranded assets and technology lock-in which will inhibit the energy transformation necessary to achieve the Paris Agreement goals.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 21, 2023

C, as enshrined in the Paris agreement. More than 200 African academics and civil society leaders are worried about what that transformation might entail. Lancaster, head of the Caribbean Environmental Law Unit at the University of the West Indies in Barbados.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 17, 2022

More than 400 scientists and academics signed a letter in January urging the federal government to kill any plan to provide a tax credit to spur industry investment in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), one of the key tools companies propose to use to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2023

Carmen Nuzzo , Executive Director of the Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre), told ESG Investor that ASCOR will allow investors to track sovereigns’ efforts toward their net zero targets and the national determined contributions (NDCs) to which they’ve committed by signing the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As media investigations reignite the debate on the viability of carbon offsets, academics argue for wider stakeholder engagement and changes to carbon accounting approaches to build robustness. This hypothetical and scenario-based element of REDD+ means there will always be a degree of uncertainty to the claims.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2023

COP28 aims to be more than just another meeting; it seeks to serve as a significant moment where the international community reflects on and evaluates the progress made since the 2015 Paris Agreement. Above all, it represents a critical self-assessment, examining what actions are required to bridge the gap by 2030.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 23, 2018

He announced that Université PSL would work with Kedge Business School to host a new SDSN France network, which is expected to launch in late 2018.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Recent academic and industry research also casts doubt on the efforts of asset managers and owners to act swiftly and decisively to decarbonise their portfolios and encourage portfolio companies to accelerate their net zero transitions plans. A carbon price is key,” he said.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 3, 2017

September 20, 2017 UN officials, policymakers, civil society leaders, and academics converged at Columbia University to discuss efforts to promote a Global Pact for the Environment. The outcomes from this event will feed into a special LESC event at COP23 coming up in November 2017.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 28, 2022

The new Western Balkans network will work to mobilize the region’s academic and research institutions, and leverage their strengths to help realize the SDGs and the Paris Agreement; as well as the shared ambition of an EU accession. SDSN Western Balkans (WB) recently held its official launch event on Mar 3, 2022.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Despite hopeful economic signals in renewable technology markets, climate media outlets have been clear on the simple fact that the national climate commitments made to date under the Paris Agreement simply don’t add up to meet the emissions cuts necessary to keep global temperatures under 1.5C.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Planning framework guidance for carbon assessment to be adjusted to be in line with the Paris Agreement. The post Urgent action on carbon measurement needed, according to academic group first appeared on Envirotec. Decisions need to be based on common understanding of the carbon impact, and these recommendations point the way.

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

Just nature transition should be placed “at the heart” of UK agricultural, climate and nature policy engagement, academic report says. Transition to a sustainable UK agriculture sector is being undermined by a failure to factor the social impacts of addressing the climate and biodiversity crises, according to authors of a new report.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While the PRI and the industry have adopted the principle of ESG integration as a doctrine, academics have treated it as a hypothesis, looking for data to test it and determine if it holds true, particularly the link between ESG integration and financial performance. And can we really still call it “impact”? Stick with the basics.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 10, 2017

Cities, business, academics and government came together to scale up solutions for climate action at COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco, and accelerate the implementation of the historic Paris Agreement. In November, the Government of Morocco, SDSN, WBCSD and ICLEI co-hosted the COP22 Low-Emissions Solutions Conference.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 4, 2018

Co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the conference will assess the current state of academic and practice-based understanding of cities and climate change, identifying key knowledge gaps to inspire new research in this area.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The idea of net zero gained attention at the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, with the goal for global emissions to reach net zero by 2050. In the 2015 Paris Agreement , many countries made binding commitments to reduce their country’s emissions in line with these limits. But progress has to start now.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The five day online event brought together 74 global technical experts and world-leading scientists, engineers, and innovators from business, academia, and civil society to share knowledge and showcase solutions to maximize climate commitments in the wake of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Julie Segal, Senior Manager, Climate Finance at Environmental Defence, explains why Canada needs a Climate-Aligned Finance Act.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Pegrum-Haram calls for a clearer industry understanding of models being used in physical risk management and “an acknowledgement of the limits of using climate model outputs as investment relevant data”. “Currently, most climate models used to guide investment decisions were designed for academic research, and the outputs are not necessarily fit-for-purpose (..)

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

C threshold (above pre-industrial levels) stipulated in the Paris Agreement. That’s why the William Davidson Institute is sponsoring the Energy Innovation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Global Case Writing Competition , which aims to increase the number of academic business cases available about this very important topic.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

Academic research published this week found that decarbonisation scenarios developed by oil majors are inconsistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Windfall wisdom questioned. Others took a different view, partly on grounds of the potential added uncertainty to the investment environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Contributors to the white paper include leading academics, local authorities, the Durham Energy Institute, Coalfields Regeneration Trust, British Geological Survey, Coal Authority, the Environment Agency and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). For more information visit www.northeastlep.co.uk.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

SDSN: Goals and Actions Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE The SDSN pursues to connect the world’s academic, research and knowledge-generating institutions in order to help them realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 13, 2022

The event was welcomed by contributions from academics and research institutes through roundtable discussions with members from SDSN Kazakhstan. Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Kazakhstan was officially launched on June 8, 2022, on the premises of the Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University.

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Sustainable Development Network

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

About SDSN UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) mobilizes the world’s academic and research institutes and leverages their strengths to help realize the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. It has been operating under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General since 2012.

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